Delicious Garlic Rice

Make this lip-smacking garlic rice (poondu sadam as we say in Tamil) with leftover rice in less than 30 minutes. Leftover makeover cannot get any easier than this. 

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Recipe Snapshot

YIELD

4

CUISINE

Indian

TIME

30 mins

COURSE

Entree

Ingredients

Healthy & delicious!

– 2 tbsp sesame oil – 2 sun-dried chilies – 10 sun-dried turkey berries – 1 tsp sun-dried black nightshade berries – ½ tsp dried neem flowers – 1 tsp mustard seeds – ½ tsp asafoetida – 15 garlic cloves - ...

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Instructions

Simple & easy-to-follow

STEP 1

– Heat the pan over medium heat and add gingelly oil. – When the oil is hot, add the dried curd chilies and shallow fry. Remove it from the pan and set it aside.

STEP  2

– In the same pan, add ten dried turkey berries and shallow fry until it changes the color to slightly dark brown. 

STEP  3

– In the same pan, add  black nightshade berries, and dried neem flowers and shallow fry. Remove it from the pan and set it aside.

STEP  4

– Now in the same pan, add mustard seeds, asafoetida, and garlic cloves. Mix and add few Curry leaves and turmeric powder. Shallow fry until the garlic turns brown. 

STEP  5

– The garlic is ready. Reduce the heat and add cooked rice. Then add salt. – Now crush the dried berries, neem leaves, and the chilies and add it to the rice. The garlic rice is ready.

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